The former Republican elections chief told the Arizona Mirror, which first reported the inquiry, that she wouldn’t even know how to permanently delete an email.

Well, she may be right about that since she made plenty of blunders during her four-year stint that prove her incompetence, including her failure to properly distribute election pamphlets to 200,000 voters in 2012 and missing several launch dates of a $500,000 website to better streamline campaign finance.

That's reason enough to Hobbs to ask

Reason number 982 why I’m glad to be out of politics. This is so beneath the new Sec of state she be embarrassed.

I’d say that’s reason enough for current Secretary of State Katie Hobbs, a Democrat, to ask the attorney general to look into the matter. It’s not about partisan politics, as Reagan claims. It’s about not taking any chances.

Hobbs said her office discovered Reagan’s empty inbox when working on a public- records request.

"Not sure if this should go to criminal or civil division, but wanted to be sure to bring this to your attention," she wrote to state Attorney General Mark Brnovich.

The request sounds reasonable. Hobbs isn’t suggesting any criminal wrongdoing. She’s asking the appropriate authority to look into the matter and make that determination.

According to state law, an elected official who "without lawful authority destroys, mutilates, defaces, alters, falsifies, removes or secretes" a public record is guilty of a class four felony. If convicted, an official can face one to 3.75 years in prison.

Reagan told the The Republic that Hobbs made the allegations for political reasons and that Hobbs should "pick up the phone" and call her if there's a records question.

That would be the reasonable thing to do, but only if Reagan were credible. Unfortunately for Reagan, there are 982 (or more) reasons not to give her the benefit of the doubt.